Computer Applications II, CS200, QT4, Periods 3, 6, 7
Thursday - Tuesday May 26 - 31, 2011 Objective: Use Microsoft Office Publisher to produce a professional-looking calendar.
Research the events online and write the dates on your paper. Publisher Filename: CalendarYourName.pub Use Microsoft Publisher, Publications for Print, to customize a calendar for the months of May and June. After picking the calendar publication, go to the lower right corner to set calendar dates. (Page 1 will be May and page 2 will be June.)
Pick a color scheme and change the provided aspects of the template to personalize your calendar.
Pick a font scheme.
Change the pictures etc.
Addtextboxes or pictures to include events on particular days.
Include these holidays and more. Look them up online to find the correct dates for 2011.
Mothers' Day
Primary Election Day in PA
Fathers' Day
Memorial Day
Other events you may include
Your birthday if it falls in May or June or you may do a calendar for your birthday month
Personal events
Friends and family birthdates
School Events
National Teacher Day
No Socks Day
May Day
Cinco de Mayo
Bike to Work Day
Flag Day
Kentucky Derby
World Turtle Day
Summer Solstice
World Environment Day
Save to your desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Wednesday May 25, 2011 Objective: Use logic.
Get into your Gaggle digital locker and save BeeSting.sb to the desktop.
Make changes and additions to the BeeSting Scratch program according to the pictures on the handouts.
Save to the desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Wednesday May 18 - Tuessday May 24, 2011 Objective: Use Microsoft Office Publisher to produce professional-looking documents.
Get into your Gaggle digital locker and save your PostcardElectronics.pub file to the desktop. Publisher Filename: PostcardElectronics.pub
Follow along with the demonstration.
Save to your desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
When you feel you are finished, have Miss Hangen check it and get permission to print it.
Tuesday May 17, 2011 Objective: Use Microsoft Office Publisher to produce professional-looking documents. Finish: BeeSting.sb Publisher Filename: PostcardElectronics.pub
Follow along with the demonstration.
Publisher
Postcards
Thank You
Open Corner
Color Scheme - Iris
Change Organization to The Electronics and More Store and stretch it across to the vertical line
Ungroup the logo
Insert logo from My Pictures, and enlarge keeping it to scale.
Format Picture - Recolor - Accent 2 (bright green)
Colors and Lines: Fill Color - Accent 3 (Light Orange), Line Color - Accent 2 (bright green), Dashed, 3 pt
Remove check from Draw border inside frame
Save
Save to the desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Delete from the desktop and empty the recycle bin.
Monday May 16, 2011 Objective: Share information with different sprites. Use repeat until effectively. Trouble-shooting. Critical thinking.
1. What does a bee do with flowers?
2. What is a person's reaction when being stung by a bee?
3. What happens to a bee after it stings someone?
4. Where is a bee's stinger? Scratch Program: BeeSting.sb
3 pages of directions provided. Your Challenge: Create the scripts for the flower. Make it change to the costume with the yellow center when the bee pollinates it.
5. Explain why you needed to use repeat until instead of forever if.
6. Explain what is occurring in the repeat 10 loop in the bee script.
Friday May 6, 2011 Objective: Use column breaks effectively.
Get your red binder.
Get into Gaggle and save your STEM2011.docx to the desktop. Word Filename: STEM2011.docx
Use the Additional STEM2011.docx Directions packet that is in your binder.
When the directions say to get a picture from the wiki, instead get the picture called WorkForce.jpg that is in a folder in the Thawspace (M) on your computer.
FINISH AND PRINT
Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
After you have proofread it and are sure it is finished, get permission to print it.
Thursday May 5, 2011 Objective: Use column breaks effectively.
Get your red binder.
Get into Gaggle and save your STEM2011.docx to the desktop. Word Filename: STEM2011.docx
Use the Additional STEM2011.docx Directions packet that is in your binder.
When the directions say to get a picture from the wiki, instead get the picture called WorkForce.jpg that is in a folder in the Thawspace (M) on your computer.
Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
After you have proofread it and are sure it is finished, get permission to print it.
Wednesday May 4, 2011 Objective: Use column breaks effectively.
Get your red binder.
Get into Gaggle and save your STEM2011.docx to the desktop. Word Filename: STEM2011.docx
Use the Additional STEM2011.docx Directions packet that is in your binder.
When the directions say to get a picture from the wiki, instead get the picture called WorkForce.jpg that is in a folder in the Thawspace (M) on your computer.
Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
Tuesday May 3, 2011 Objective: Use columns effectively.
Get your red binder.
Get into Gaggle and save your STEM2011.docx to the desktop. Word Filename: STEM2011.docx
Type the rest of page one. Directions and text are in your red binder.
After typing, go back and format the appropriate text with the appropriate formats:
- bold
- underline
- subscript
- superscript
Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
Monday May 2, 2011 Objective: Use columns effectively.
Read over the blue packet called STEM2011.docx Directions. Word Filename: STEM2011.docx
Tuesday & Wednesday April 19 & 20, 2011 Objective: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a professional-looking table of contents.
Start a Word document and save it with the name, Contents.docx
Word Filename: Contents.docx
Use Word to create a page of the table of contents of a textbook. Refer to stapled packet.
1. Set the margins. Top and bottom: 1" Left and right 1.25"
2. Clear all tab settings.
3. Make a tab stop at 6 that is aligned right and has the dots as a leader.
4. View - Rulers
5. Click at 1.25 to place a regular tab stop at that spot.
6. Type the text with the default font.
7. Insert the footer.
8. Use the page numbering drop down menu to format the page number as indicated on the picture on your direction packet.
Upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Monday April 18, 2011 Objective: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics.
Finish and print Menu.docx
Word Filename: Contents.docx
Use Word to create a page of the table of contents of a textbook.
Actually page in your binder.
Upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Thursday & Friday April 14 & 15, 2011 Objective: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics.
Look at a table of contents in a book. Look at a menu.
Describe what I might mean by leading dots.
Word Filename: Menu.docx
Landscape
Margins 1"
Restaurant or Cafe name with your name in it (Change font, Size 48, bold, Small caps, center)
Sentence (Size 20)
2 columns, from this point forward
Tabs, Clear All, 3.25, Alignment - decimal, Leader, 2........, Set, OK
Category - bold, italic, underline, shadow, size 24
Menu item, tab, price, size 20
Page border
Put faint picture or background behind text
Spell check
Make it look nice
Upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Wednesday April 13, 2011 Objective: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics.
Finish: NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx
Margins --> Top and bottom 1.5, left and right: .8
Spelling and grammar check
Proofread
Font: Bookman Old Style
Title: size 16, bold, small caps
by Your Name: size 14, bold, small caps
Title: centered above article
Article: 3 columns, spacing .3, column width 2.1
include photo, textwrapping: square
One page only
Finish: WordGame.sb (Scratch)
Print NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx
Show me WordGame.sb
Monday & Tuesday April 11 & 12, 2011 Objective: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics.
How are the newspaper columns different than our usual way of aligning text?
Look at the picture and think about the question.
Discuss it with your neighbor.
Share with the class when the teacher calls on you.
. Save to the desktop as NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx.
NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx
Together, we will:
spell check
grammar check
use newspaper columns
add a graphic
format
Save the file to the desktop as NewpaperBruceLlewellyn.docx, and then upload it to your Gaggle digital locker.
Test that the file that you saved in your digital locker is correct by opening it. Only after you are sure that your completed NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx file is in your locker, delete it off the desktop and empty the recycle bin.
Friday April 8, 2011 Objective: Understand the uses of desktop publishing. Paper and Pencil: Finish Desktop Publishing--What Is It?
Monday April 4, 2011 Objective: Create a digital picture story about a place, topic, or event that you are interested in.
Get into your Gaggle digital locker.
Save your PhotoStory file to your desktop.
Save your PhotoData.xlsx to your desktop.
Put final touches on your PhotoStory and have it ready to be viewed and graded. Filename: PhotoStoryPdxLastname.wp3 Requirements:
Title page created in PowerPoint
Photos (Edited as necessary)
Captions/Titles on several photos
Customize Motion on all photos to create a fluid look and to emphasize featured parts of photos
Add transitions other than the default to some slides to add interest and emphasize meaning
Add appropriate music
Include a credits slide that you create in PowerPoint.
Make sure it is readable and flows well.
Save to your desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Computer Applications II, CS200, QT4, Periods 3, 6, 7
Thursday - Tuesday May 26 - 31, 2011
Objective: Use Microsoft Office Publisher to produce a professional-looking calendar.
Research the events online and write the dates on your paper.
Publisher Filename: CalendarYourName.pub
Use Microsoft Publisher, Publications for Print, to customize a calendar for the months of May and June.
After picking the calendar publication, go to the lower right corner to set calendar dates.
(Page 1 will be May and page 2 will be June.)
Pick a color scheme and change the provided aspects of the template to personalize your calendar.
Pick a font scheme.
Change the pictures etc.
Add textboxes or pictures to include events on particular days.
Save to your desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Wednesday May 25, 2011
Objective: Use logic.
Get into your Gaggle digital locker and save BeeSting.sb to the desktop.
Make changes and additions to the BeeSting Scratch program according to the pictures on the handouts.
Save to the desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Wednesday May 18 - Tuessday May 24, 2011
Objective: Use Microsoft Office Publisher to produce professional-looking documents.
Get into your Gaggle digital locker and save your PostcardElectronics.pub file to the desktop.
Publisher Filename: PostcardElectronics.pub
Follow along with the demonstration.
Save to your desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
When you feel you are finished, have Miss Hangen check it and get permission to print it.
Tuesday May 17, 2011
Objective: Use Microsoft Office Publisher to produce professional-looking documents.
Finish: BeeSting.sb
Publisher Filename: PostcardElectronics.pub
Follow along with the demonstration.
Publisher
Postcards
Thank You
Open Corner
Color Scheme - Iris
Change Organization to The Electronics and More Store and stretch it across to the vertical line
Ungroup the logo
Insert logo from My Pictures, and enlarge keeping it to scale.
Format Picture - Recolor - Accent 2 (bright green)
Colors and Lines: Fill Color - Accent 3 (Light Orange), Line Color - Accent 2 (bright green), Dashed, 3 pt
Remove check from Draw border inside frame
Save
Save to the desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Delete from the desktop and empty the recycle bin.
Monday May 16, 2011
Objective: Share information with different sprites. Use repeat until effectively. Trouble-shooting. Critical thinking.
1. What does a bee do with flowers?
2. What is a person's reaction when being stung by a bee?
3. What happens to a bee after it stings someone?
4. Where is a bee's stinger?
Scratch Program: BeeSting.sb
3 pages of directions provided.
Your Challenge: Create the scripts for the flower. Make it change to the costume with the yellow center when the bee pollinates it.
5. Explain why you needed to use repeat until instead of forever if.
6. Explain what is occurring in the repeat 10 loop in the bee script.
Friday May 6, 2011
Objective: Use column breaks effectively.
Get your red binder.
Get into Gaggle and save your STEM2011.docx to the desktop.
Word Filename: STEM2011.docx
Use the Additional STEM2011.docx Directions packet that is in your binder.
When the directions say to get a picture from the wiki, instead get the picture called WorkForce.jpg that is in a folder in the Thawspace (M) on your computer.
FINISH AND PRINT
Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
After you have proofread it and are sure it is finished, get permission to print it.
Thursday May 5, 2011
Objective: Use column breaks effectively.
Get your red binder.
Get into Gaggle and save your STEM2011.docx to the desktop.
Word Filename: STEM2011.docx
Use the Additional STEM2011.docx Directions packet that is in your binder.
When the directions say to get a picture from the wiki, instead get the picture called WorkForce.jpg that is in a folder in the Thawspace (M) on your computer.
Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
After you have proofread it and are sure it is finished, get permission to print it.
Wednesday May 4, 2011
Objective: Use column breaks effectively.
Get your red binder.
Get into Gaggle and save your STEM2011.docx to the desktop.
Word Filename: STEM2011.docx
Use the Additional STEM2011.docx Directions packet that is in your binder.
When the directions say to get a picture from the wiki, instead get the picture called WorkForce.jpg that is in a folder in the Thawspace (M) on your computer.
Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
Tuesday May 3, 2011
Objective: Use columns effectively.
Get your red binder.
Get into Gaggle and save your STEM2011.docx to the desktop.
Word Filename: STEM2011.docx
Type the rest of page one. Directions and text are in your red binder.
After typing, go back and format the appropriate text with the appropriate formats:
- bold
- underline
- subscript
- superscript
Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
Monday May 2, 2011
Objective: Use columns effectively.
Read over the blue packet called STEM2011.docx Directions.
Word Filename: STEM2011.docx
Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
Thursday - Friday April 21-29, 2011
Objective: Use graphics and computational thinking effectively.
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Klovira/109633/Klovira/109633
Scratch Program: DecorateEgg.sb
Save and upload to Gaggle digital locker.
Tuesday & Wednesday April 19 & 20, 2011
Objective: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a professional-looking table of contents.
Start a Word document and save it with the name, Contents.docx
Word Filename: Contents.docx
Use Word to create a page of the table of contents of a textbook. Refer to stapled packet.
1. Set the margins. Top and bottom: 1" Left and right 1.25"
2. Clear all tab settings.
3. Make a tab stop at 6 that is aligned right and has the dots as a leader.
4. View - Rulers
5. Click at 1.25 to place a regular tab stop at that spot.
6. Type the text with the default font.
7. Insert the footer.
8. Use the page numbering drop down menu to format the page number as indicated on the picture on your direction packet.
Upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Monday April 18, 2011
Objective: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics.
Finish and print Menu.docx
Word Filename: Contents.docx
Use Word to create a page of the table of contents of a textbook.
Actually page in your binder.
Upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Thursday & Friday April 14 & 15, 2011
Objective: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics.
Look at a table of contents in a book. Look at a menu.
Describe what I might mean by leading dots.
Word Filename: Menu.docx
Landscape
Margins 1"
Restaurant or Cafe name with your name in it (Change font, Size 48, bold, Small caps, center)
Sentence (Size 20)
2 columns, from this point forward
Tabs, Clear All, 3.25, Alignment - decimal, Leader, 2........, Set, OK
Category - bold, italic, underline, shadow, size 24
Menu item, tab, price, size 20
Page border
Put faint picture or background behind text
Spell check
Make it look nice
Upload to your Gaggle digital locker.
Wednesday April 13, 2011
Objective: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics.
Finish: NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx
Margins --> Top and bottom 1.5, left and right: .8
Spelling and grammar check
Proofread
Font: Bookman Old Style
Title: size 16, bold, small caps
by Your Name: size 14, bold, small caps
Title: centered above article
Article: 3 columns, spacing .3, column width 2.1
include photo, textwrapping: square
One page only
Finish: WordGame.sb (Scratch)
Print NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx
Show me WordGame.sb
Monday & Tuesday April 11 & 12, 2011
Objective: Use a word processing program to do the desktop publishing task of creating a document with newspaper style columns and graphics.
How are the newspaper columns different than our usual way of aligning text?
Look at the picture and think about the question.
Discuss it with your neighbor.
Share with the class when the teacher calls on you.
For Fun: Read about creating your own fake newspaper clippings.
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/create-your-own-newspaper-headlines/
Word Filename: Download
spell check
grammar check
use newspaper columns
add a graphic
format
Save the file to the desktop as NewpaperBruceLlewellyn.docx, and then upload it to your Gaggle digital locker.
Test that the file that you saved in your digital locker is correct by opening it.
Only after you are sure that your completed NewspaperBruceLlewellyn.docx file is in your locker, delete it off the desktop and empty the recycle bin.
Friday April 8, 2011
Objective: Understand the uses of desktop publishing.
Paper and Pencil: Finish Desktop Publishing--What Is It?
Quagmire isn't just a cartoon character's name.
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/quagmire
Try out: WordGame.sb. This would be a word game for young children.
Scratch Program: WordGame.sb
Show me WordGame.sb
Turn in Desktop Publishing--What Is It?
Tuesday - Thursday April 5 - 7, 2011
Objective: Understand the uses of desktop publishing.
Show Miss Hangen your PhotoStory and any other marking period 3 assignments that are not in your digital locker.
Paper and Pencil:
Pages 2,3,4,5,6 of Desktop Publishing--What Is It?
Page 1 is in the red binder and has directions to find an occupation in the government database.
Websites needed:
http://www.bls.gov
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos276.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomics
http://webvision.med.utah.edu/KallSpatial.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_acuity
http://webvision.med.utah.edu/KallDepth.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_vision
When you are finished with the packet, make sure your name is on it and turn it in.
Monday April 4, 2011
Objective: Create a digital picture story about a place, topic, or event that you are interested in.
Get into your Gaggle digital locker.
Save your PhotoStory file to your desktop.
Save your PhotoData.xlsx to your desktop.
Put final touches on your PhotoStory and have it ready to be viewed and graded.
Filename: PhotoStoryPdxLastname.wp3
Requirements:
Title page created in PowerPoint
Photos (Edited as necessary)
Captions/Titles on several photos
Customize Motion on all photos to create a fluid look and to emphasize featured parts of photos
Add transitions other than the default to some slides to add interest and emphasize meaning
Add appropriate music
Include a credits slide that you create in PowerPoint.
Make sure it is readable and flows well.
Save to your desktop and upload to your Gaggle digital locker.